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Originally Posted by EricH
*curses at VB's not putting spaces in right*
If you've ever seen a dovetail joint, it should be fairly simple to figure out. Look at a standard door hinge; that's a fairly common dovetail application. Now replace the pin with an axle, and the screw plates with swing arms. You'd need to change the geometry and check the stresses, but that's pretty simple to do.
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Door hinges aren't dovetails, are they? I always thought dovetails looked like this:
/_\ or \_/-\_/-\_/ with the dashed part cutout and bottom line at the top